 Our next guest and speaker knows a little something about cronyism up close and personal, having grown up in the former Soviet Union, where he obtained his PhD at University of Moscow, was actually involved in some of the Gorbachev era reforms in that country. Dr. Yuri Maltsev is a professor of iconic Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. But what I really admire so much about him is when he first came to the United States as a Soviet expatriate, he was in many ways the darling of the right wing. The right loves a Soviet expat, right? Somebody who can talk about how evil the former Soviet Union was. But the problem was that in Yuri's case, they found out later that he's also opposed to big government when conservatives do it. But nonetheless, he has been an absolute yeoman in traveling the world and talking about the horrors of socialism that he witnessed and saw and understood growing up. So please, a big round of applause for Yuri Maltsev. Well, thank you, Jeff. It sounded like a very nice eulogy, and I would say I was hired by an American academia because they thought I'm a communist missionary. And then they discovered that I'm a lemon and they cannot get rid of me already for almost 30 years. But if they will, Richard Bartrell just gave me a fantastic gift. And this gift is a Russian matryoshka dolls. This is Lenin, and this is Stalin, and this is Mao Zedong, and this is Karl Marx himself. And this is Ludwig von Mises, von Mises was right. So except this figurine, what I can do if I'll be fired, I can open a shooting range and become pretty rich. So today we'll talk a little bit about what is socialist cronyism. I don't believe there is any capitalist cronyism because cronyism is rejection of the market, rejection of the market. It's not a profit-oriented activity. So when you hear about crony capitalism, it's nothing but the third way so-called, a mixture of capitalism with socialism or negation of capitalism. So this is, in Russia today, well at first I was, when I defected to the United States in 1989, I was considered to be a traitor. And now they're making this funny Photoshop things and that was made by my good friend of mine who was chief sex pathologist of Soviet armed forces because they thought homosexuality is pathology. So he was a general and he could dismiss people from the force. And what was great about, he became the most popular man because nobody wanted to serve. And so that means, and he would just point, would say, these are all homosexuals, please go home. And so this is, I think that what we are doing, unfortunately, we are losing cultural wars. I mean in academia this is very, when I got tenure, I decided to skip all faculty meetings and was not going to faculty meetings for maybe 15 years and because they were as bad as party meetings in Moscow even worse because everybody believed in what they're saying. And then the president of my college, he said, Yuri, this time you must go because the fate of Western civilization is on the stake. You must come and vote for it. So we should win. And the vote was, my vote was wasted. It was five of us against 156 who were against the Western civilization. So there's not much of conservatives. They control mass media, the socialists right now, completely the US propaganda is even worse than Soviet propaganda because Soviet propaganda was so clumsy that sometimes you would think that it's kind of a grotesque or some kind of the Soviet propaganda people, they look like stand-up comedians or underpaid disgruntled economists or whomever else. So this is the deep state is definitely, I think that we got a absolutely unbelievable chance to do a U-turn on the road to serve them with the last elections because anytime I am choosing between socialist and capitalist, I definitely would choose a capitalist. And I'm not concerned about his sexual escapees or whatever else because he was creating real value before that and he was running Trump organization. He was, he created all these beautiful, beautiful hotels. I've stayed in some of them. Right now in Washington, the old post office house is just fantastic, fantastic. So I think that this is already great that a person like him decided to do something and definitely he cannot be, I think, corrupted. Besides that, if you listen to his old interviews that his favorite book is Fountainhead and he read the whole in Rand and moreover he even organized a little club discussing in Rand. So he's, I mean, I would prefer Mises and Rodbert but short of that because Mises and Rodbert were not running in 2016, so we can settle on what would be good. And so he's, he definitely more of work here right now pretends and he's, I have two of my students who are working in the White House now for OMB for Office of Management and Budget. So I teach them properly and give me this government pin even as a gift. They were actually concerned. They would invite me for lunch at the White House. They were pretty much concerned about my last name. So they would think that maybe security, the deep state would think that I came from Moscow as a puppeteer to pull the strings on Mr. Trump. And so, but now I think we face real problem with socialism, the S problem. The S problem is that one thing, socialism became already kind of a household word in the United States that if you will look at the mass media is doing that, that they were trying to prove that socialism is something that is not so difficult, that it is something that we should try. In Washington Post, they hired this famous socialist, Elizabeth Boring, who is writing every week that it's time to try socialism. Straight up, one of my students in my class, he said, have you read this, why not to try socialism? So we'll try cancer better, it's not so deadly. That's the, then we have Bernie Sanders and the likes who completely don't understand what they do in trying us to confuse us, saying that socialism is almost everything the government does. Well, government is a socialist institution, but there should be certain critical mass of government ownership and government power to make us all public slaves because what socialism means is slavery, it is slavery. And then they cannot prove that socialism, for example, that in Soviet Union, that life was very good because it's no economic or any statistical data about that. So now the New York Times, they had this, if you haven't read it, just find it and read it. It's the most entertaining article that I've read in New York Times. Just period, yeah, since, yeah, so the article is saying that people, women, women, because who cares about men, that women had a much longer, more intense and more frequent orgasms on the socialism than on the capitalism. And how do they know that? They would, it says, certain Elizabeth Godsey from University of Pennsylvania in charge of Russian studies there. And this is an Ivy League school. They are interviewing Babushkas today, the old women who lived on the socialism and we're asking them whether orgasms were nicer when 40 years ago for them or they're much better now. And I'm not making it up, it's just, yeah, it belongs to onion, definitely, but that's, speaking about love, I think, I remember Murray Rodbert, I was blessed to know him and brought the clues for several years when I came to the United States and he used to say that the most important thing is to defend liberty by laughing at them, by laughing at the enemies of liberty. And he said, I really like George Herbert Walker Bush. I said, why, I was so surprised. He said, look, how funny was he when he threw up at the Japanese prime minister? And no other president did that. Now we have president who is kind of get one free in the sense that he is a great entertainer himself. I really like his tweet, he had this wonderful tweet some time ago, now they're big buddies with Kim Jong-un but it was before, he said, Kim Jong-un calls me old. I don't call him fat or stupid because I want to be his friend. Isn't that something or else? 37,000 tweets he made already. Or another one, I'm going to meet with Kim Jong-un. New York Times will probably spread the story that I want to date his sister. That's, yeah, so why is it time to give socials my try? Putin actually wins the election's hearings, that's for sure. And amazingly enough, that my students, also who are involved with the Trump campaigns, they send me this, that the campaign of 2020 will use this, who is John Galt? And Mr. Trump said, you know, 2020 will use this, who is John Galt? And Mr. Trump, I think he really believes that he is one. So that's, I went to South Africa recently and they were very much afraid of Trump. They're thinking, oh, just hope for the end of the world's end of civilization. And knowing about that, one of my friends and former students, also an active member of Trump campaign, whatever, he sent me Trump's wig. Trump's wig, with a short note saying that, I don't know actually whether you really like Trump or not, but if not, then you can use it as a Boris Johnson wig, which you probably can. And so I came in the Free Market Foundation, South Africa, they had like 600 people, all scared, all whatever, I didn't know what to do, so I put the wig in and they were kind of, that's the way I think that then the people would listen to your story. And so that's the, and they were all very much relieved. Now we have an unusual thing, I cannot watch or read anything because it's all, only about Trump. They squeezed today in the Senate, they squeezed a little bit, a couple of minutes about this volcano in Hawaii, and that was about it. Yeah, then weather, when I lived in Soviet Union I had a nice neighbor, Sarah, an old Jewish lady, and every morning she would see me at the stairs at my apartment and would wave the newspaper and say, Yuri, they're lying even about weather. And that's exactly what's happening today. It's really, it's one story, there's nothing else, nothing else, absolutely. So this is, so we'll talk a little bit about socialism, what is that and why it is based on cronyism. Well, John Locke, I would say for me the greatest British philosopher, and he believed that you should answer a question, who owns you, who owns you? And if you own yourself, you're a free man, if somebody else owns you, you're a slave. So it kind of embraces everything. It embraces private slavery and public slavery as well. And public slavery is socialism. Socialism is when you don't own yourself, the government owns you. The government is telling you what to do and where to leave, where to work, when to die, that's what all is in the central planning, in the central planning. And so in 1986, I joined Mr. Gorbachev's economic reform crowd. That was a senior group of economists and I was in charge of reform of civil service and well, which was uncivilized service in the Soviet Union. But I immediately, when I joined the, we had our first meeting with Mr. Gorbachev, it was maybe about 20, 25 people in the audience, and Mr. Gorbachev, he said, he said, we need to keep in mind that central planning works, central planning works. The problem is that we never had a good plan. And I was sitting next to his chief economic advisor, Mr. Aganbeyan, and we called him the biggest economist in the world. He was even bigger than me. And he bended to me and he said, Yuri, do you think there is anything behind this beautiful birthmark? If you remember Mr. Gorbachev. I was thinking there are real changes, real changes, because understanding, if you would say anything like that, you would be dead. So this is public slavery, and it is public slavery. Now Marx, they're still teaching Marx everywhere. In 3,000 something colleges, they have real courses on Marxist economics, Marxist sociology. They had World Marxist College, they're very appropriate place, Amherst, Massachusetts. And I remember they had this resolution passed. So in Moscow, you cannot have a Marxist congress anymore. You would be probably, I don't know, ostracized by people. But in Amherst, Massachusetts, they adopted a resolution that what happened in Soviet Union and other socialist countries was not actually the collapse of socialism. It was collapse of state capitalism. State capitalism sounds like an oxymoron for me, but collapse of state. So capitalism failed again. And this time ruined Soviet Union. And you can see that just two weeks ago, or three weeks ago, all the left celebrated 200th anniversary since Marx's birth. And there was this article, say New York Times, Washington Compost, and all others about Marx, how great he was, how he was misunderstood, that we cannot blame him for murders at all, that he was not complicit in these murders. I will show you a little bit later that he was, that he was. Many of my colleagues would say, well, this is communism is bad, communism fascism is bad, but socialism is good. Socialism is good. Socialism is being blamed for. It's communism which is bad. Well, communism never happened. If you will look what communism is, communism sounds like a libertarian utopia. The state would wither away, there will be no state. Then there will be no money, no nothing, no federal reserve, definitely. And people would work for free, and working for free would be the greatest delight, according to Marx, which would dwarf all the pleasures of love. We don't need probably to multiply, just go to work. And then after work, we can go to these huge public warehouses, would be like Sam's Clubs or Costco, but with no cashiers. So you can pick whatever you like to pick, and you will work as hard as you possibly can, but you will consume as little as you possibly can. It will be such an angel that the state would wither away because you don't need to be governed. You will self-govern yourself. And Lenin, a student of Marx, he was kind of thinking that that maybe will not happen right away. And Lenin made the point that, and it's written, that we inherited from Tsars, we inherited very poor human material, that's how he called people, very poor human material, which can be enhanced only by mass shootings and forced labor, and forced labor. But when there was no communism, Friedrich Engels, the guy who bankrolled Marx and was a co-author of many works with Marx, he asked Marx, when does he think this communist utopia, this communist paradise, would occur? And Marx said, I think maybe four or five hundred years from now. So we're still maybe 150 years on the waitlist before it would happen. That was in Poland, I was at the World Libertarian Congress, sitting next to a British lady, and she said, I was a political member of the British Communist Party, and I said, what are you doing at the Libertarian Congress? She said, I turned Libertarian. I said, what's that for? And she said, because she believes that Libertarian free markets, whatever, they would make capitalism ripe faster. So maybe we can cut 150 years to only 75, if everything would be Libertarian, capitalism would be ripe again, and communist revolution can occur before that. So delusions, you never know what the forms and shapes of delusions are. At least it's funny. Yes, Marx himself, classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give away. Then, theory of communism, what is socialism? Socialism is abolition of private property. So when Bernie Sanders is saying, Denmark is the best socialist country, this is stupid because Denmark is not a socialist country. And Jan Rasmussen, the Prime Minister of Denmark, he even, next day after Bernie Sanders made this statement, he made a statement on Danish TV that he's bad-mouthing Denmark, because if you go to Denmark, you will see, that is a capitalist country. You can have this or that, so-called neo-socialist kind of programs, and welfare state, but the basis of the economy is private property. And besides that, in most countries, including Scandinavian countries, they have much less regulations than in the United States. It's freer, it's freer. You can, for example, in Sweden, we are struggling with the school choice issue, so what now? In Sweden, anyone can open, except certified pedophiles, but anybody else can open a school. If you have a higher education, you can open a school, and you can open, and they have a lot of schools, Jewish schools, and Muslim schools, and Catholic schools, and Lutheran schools, and whatever else. And then, and that would be the choices, much more choices. Now they're trying to get rid of their version of Obamacare, of their healthcare. Right now, even in Canada, they're privatizing the laboratories and things like that. They're exhilaries for serving the state hospitals or what not. I think that's one of the most important things to keep in mind, that to keep government out of our bodies, this is the most, we created this monster with a third-party PE system, and now they want to take over it, and I think that would be already the first sign of complete slavery when you would not own your body, and that's extremely important for us. But Obamacare is still alive. So there are a lot of different mass murderers of any kind. One of them, Zinoviev, in 1936, he was murdered by Stalin. He probably made him laugh. He said we must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia's population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated. And that kind of monsters and Lenin and Stalin, they were all talking about that. So this is the stuff which not many people know. There is some kind of confusion about relations between Hitler and Marxism. Hitler several times, he referred to Marxism as the source of his wisdom, as the source of his wisdom. Then many people say, well, Marx was Jewish. Marx was not Jewish. He was a son of a lawyer who baptized himself in Lutheran faith five years before Marx was born. And I hate to say that, but many people like that, they would be even more anti-Semitic because they willfully rejected their roots. Willfully rejected their roots. He hated to be Jewish, so he became Lutheran. And this is, I don't want to read it because that's how they can fire me from my college. Yes, that's the, he's talking about racial trash all the time. Marx was, and who would be racial trash? Basques, Scottish islanders, Slavs, especially Poles and Serbs, they should be burned in the Revolutionary Holocaust. So, and he had a great student in Hitler and student in Lenin, student in Lenin. Yes, so speaking about how peaceful was Marx, we have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. And you should keep in mind that, that if this is democratic socialism, this is an oxymoron, there's no such thing, then that when, for example, we will have a takeover in our country and this takeover is going on, I think right now. I think we have a, I was, I wanted to say, slow-motion socialist revolution. I think it's not slow-motion anymore. It's almost a full-blown, full-blown. And that's why I ignore even shortcomings and misgivings of our president because he's definitely on the side of the whites. You remember that in Russia, they had whites and reds, whites and reds. And whites were everybody else. There were people who didn't want slavery and there were different groups of people who maybe didn't have much in common, whatever. And that's a pity that they lost and there were beautiful losers. But I think that we made an unexpected, unexpected, because I was already thinking where to defect again before those last elections. Then Mao Zedong will talk about numbers. In Soviet Union, the numbers are anywhere from 43 to 61 million people murdered. 43 million numbers were even confirmed by the KGB itself. I remember when Gorbachev, he had collateral to his perestroika. Perestroika was restructuring, restructuring. And Gorbachev, he was kind of, he didn't know what's happening or whatever. I don't know whether he did things deliberately because he would say, for example, the same Abela Ganbgyan would say, we need to build a Swedish model, Swedish model. And Gorbachev would say, where you would get Swedes? And so sometimes he had something funny to say, but from another hand, it was not going anywhere. And that was, and I just was published several articles about Alexander Yakovlev, who was his second man of, he was previously Soviet ambassador to Canada. And he was a real enemy of everything. Since 1944, he served in the Soviet army, decided that, that regime is the most evil, this evil incarnate. It's worse than anything. It's an antichrist. And I remember he once said, he said, yeah, friend of mine, he said, Alexander, what do you think about restructuring? What should restructure? And he said, we should restructure this monstrosity into rubble, into pile of rubble. So he knew what he was doing. And that's exactly monstrosity. It was like 43, 61 million. I even don't care whether it's 43, 61. It's all above my understanding of evil even. That's the mass murder. And Stalin was, why did I put this here? Because many people in such Soviet government were the most educated people of their time. They were the most educated people of their time. Lenin could speak seven languages. He would write poetry in French. But because of the goal, because of the ideology, it made them the gang of the most prolific murderers in history ever knew. Because under Stalin and Mao Zedong, more people were murdered than by anybody or all others. Genghis Khan and Hitler and whoever else combined couldn't reach these numbers. Stalin was saying, death is a solution to all problems. No men, no problem. The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is statistic. Nothing else. And so, or I am working at the Library of Congress at the archives of the former Soviet general Volkagonov. And this is just horrible, horrific. He was a commander of Soviet Institute for Military History. And amazingly, and he was a propaganda person. He was worse than I think Keith Olbermann or Ms. Maddo or maybe not. But every time he would be on TV, I would switch him off, because he was just lying and lying and lying. And he was commander of Soviet Institute for Military History. And member of the Central Committee and everything. And I would never imagine that the same very person, he was in Austria in 1981 and bought a Xerox machine and he was making highly legal copies of everything going through his desk. And he accumulated 46 big boxes of super secret materials from times of Lenin to Gorbachev. And then when Soviet Union collapsed, he approached, he became National Security Advisor to Mr. Yeltsin. And he approached US Ambassador in Moscow and he asked an assistance to move all these archives to United States, to Library of Congress. And the Ambassador said, well, how about CIA? CIA can help you. He said, no, CIA, I want to Library of Congress and if CIA wants to read it, get a reader's card and read it in the Library of Congress. I don't know if CIA ever did that. I did. And unfortunately, I'm the only reader, looks like it's in the archives in a special kind of keeping, part of it and nobody else's. But there is enough material of these crimes and murders and lies, enough for 10,000, 15,000 doctorate dissertations. It's just amazing, amazing thing there. And just to give you kind of a few what is all about, there is a commissar from South Russia writing to Lenin, Dear Comrade Lenin, you told us to fight religion. You didn't explain how. Lenin is writing him back. Dear Comrade Imbecile, kill religious people, that's how. And then post script and kill them the way everybody would be trembling with fear 150 miles around. So this is the kind of, and how did they, why they kill? It's inevitable under socialism. That's what we should keep in mind. Inevitable, murder and socialism are interconnected because under socialism there is absolutely no incentives to do anything. If you would be paid the same, no matter what you do or you don't, if you will live in the same barracks, if you would have the same access to non-existent health care or education which would be as bad or even worse than brainwashing in our, say, public schools, then after that you will not do anything. You'll just sit around or drink like Russians do or do something else like this. The only way to make you do what the great leader wants is to threaten you, to threaten you, to kill. So the murder and violence under socialism is part of the economic mechanism. It's inevitable, inevitable. Otherwise it would collapse. So these are the... And why revolutions should be violent? Because if it's a violation of private property people usually do not give private property without struggle. They would not say, oh please take me, take everything, I will leave. So this is from Lenin. A dictatorship of the proletariat will follow to weed out remaining capitalist elements. And so they were weeding these canes and others. We had so many people who either misunderstood what's going on or whether we're useful idiots for socialism or useless idiots, because that's what Lenin was saying, that they're useful idiots, that will be liberals, or whomever useless idiots would be actually social anarchists. Now we have a very funny thing, that there are some libertarians are saying, we are socialist libertarians. This is the worst oxymoron. If somebody put a wonderful picture on this and yes, and I am a banana octopus. And that's exactly what it is. So you can see that canes loved it. Canes was loved by Hitler, by another socialist, national socialist. He was invited to Berktisgaden. He was wise enough not to go saying that he's sick. So Hayek, I think was, he spent a lot of, and von Mises, spent a lot of the energy and effort to present socialism in what it really is. It's misplaced. They have socialism, unfortunately, has a pretty kind of good marketing strategy, especially to the young people, to the young people. And what is the, yes, I think if you are 20 and you are not a socialist, you don't have a heart. If you are 30 and still a socialist, you don't have brain. But 20 years old, they really like it. So I see that my time is coming up. This is wrong Hayek. This is a real Hayek. And this is von Mises. And von Mises, he wrote about this national socialism and Marxist socialism, Russian pattern. It's everything is owned by the state. And German pattern is when, it's like United States economy today moving there. That you have a title, but you're actually not in charge. The government is telling you what to do, when to open, when to close, whom to fire and whom to hire. Okay, I will maybe stop on this. The funny thing about this pension of Truman's pension that was mentioned before, when Gorbachev was fired as the president of Soviet Union because of no Soviet Union, Yeltsin ordered the parliament to give him a pension. And the parliament passed six dollars a month pension to Mr. Gorbachev. And when Yeltsin was signing it, he said, you're wasting government resources again. I think he was right. Any kind of socialism is very dangerous. All right, well thank you.